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2.2 Paul Fromm

by Manuel Pruschi and Bernie M Farber

Paul Fromm is a former school board trustee and has been
a public school teacher for nearly two decades. But his
career as a racist activist stretches back to his own
student days at the University of Toronto.

There, in the late 1960's he was one of the founders,
with Donald Andrews and Leigh Smith, of the Edmund Burke
Society.

Although nominally conservative and anti-communist, the
Edmund Burke Society quickly degenerated into something much
more sinister. The group was involved in several violent
confrontations with radical left and anti-war groups in
Toronto during those turbulent years. But in the early 70's
the group forged links with American Nazi and Ku
Klux Klan groups and transformed itself into the more
extreme Western Guard. Although he resigned from the
Guard shortly after the group - and his leadership role in
it - became public, belonged long enough to be the opening
speaker at a May, 1972 banquet to which the "Reverend"
Robert Miles gave the keynote address. Miles was a former
Klan leader who'd become a leading ideologist in the
racist Christian Identity movement) a viciously
anti-black, antisemitic "religion". Soon after his Canadian
appearance, Miles spent close to 6 years in jail for his
involvement in the bombing often school buses in Pontiac,
Michigan and the tarring and feathering of an area school
principal.

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Shortly after accounts of that meeting were reported in
the Toronto Sun[12] Fromm and several others
resigned, effectively leaving the Guard under the control of
Andrews. The group lasted a few more years before it
disintegrated under pressure from local law enforcement
officials. Andrews later served two jail terms, one for
conspiracy to create mischief and possession of explosives,
and one for wilfully promoting hatred against
non-whites.

Don Andrews remains the nominal leader of the virtually
defunct Nationalist Party of Canada. Today, the NP
seems to rouse itself for but one brief burst of annual
political activity - the production and mail-out of letters
and a poster urging the adoption of a so-called "European
Heritage Week".

Since his EBS days, Fromm has consistently striven
to portray himself as nothing more extreme than a simple
conservative. But his views, his actions and his
associations have continuously betrayed him.

Fromm has borne a long standing animus against minorities
and immigrants who do not fit into his profile of what
Canada should look like. In one of his publications,
"Canadian Population and Immigration Quarterly" the
item headings tell the story:

Fromm's views on minorities and immigration, as early as
1981, disqualified him from mainstream political activity
when he was fired as treasurer of the Federal Progressive
Conservative party's Metro wing.

Early on, Fromm latched on to the freedom of speech
issue, defending the rights of hate-mongers, such as Ernst
Zundel James Keegstra, Malcolm Ross, Wolfgang Droege and
others without ever repudiating or distancing himself from
their views, chosing [sic]
instead to portray them as martyrs and victims of
witch-hunts.

On September 26, 1991, Fromm donned his "defender of free
speech" cloak once more to defend the white racist
Heritage Front at a meeting of the Toronto Mayor's
Committee on Community, Race and Ethnic Relations. During
the meeting Fromm called out "scalp them"[14]
apparently directing his remarks at the anti-racism
coordinator for the Native Canadian Centre, who was making a
presentation on the activities of the Heritage
Front.

Paul Fromm and his two primary propaganda vehicles, CAFE
and C-FAR, have often interacted with Ron Gostick's
Canadian League of Rights, perhaps Canada's most durable
antisemitic and racist organization. Fromm has also been a
member of

the World Anti-communist League. In a 1986 book,
Inside the League, in a list of what is mostly a
rogues gallery of extremists is found "Paul Fromm (Canada):
Neo-Nazi and historical revisionist."[15] The
identification of Fromm as a revisionist squares with his
sponsorship of lectures in Canada by Holocaust denier David
living and his introduction of a number of Irving's
speeches.

Definitive links between Fromm and Wolfgang Droege and
the Heritage Front have also been uncovered. The December 9,
1990 "Martyr's Day Rally" was a kind of "coming out" for
Paul Fromm. Fromm, as a video tape attests, spoke at the
event which was held at the Latvian Hall. The tape shows an
audience replete with racist skinheads and other extremists
of various stripes. Periodically right hands cut through the
air with the Nazi salute and the hall reverberated with the
shouts of "Zeig [sic]
heil", "white power", "hail The Order" and "nigger,
nigger, nigger, out out out."[16]

Fromm addressed the gathering from a podium bearing the
Heritage Front insignia and its motto "Our Race is
our Nation". Behind him and to the sides, the stage was
ornamented with huge banners including the Nazi swastika
flag of Hitler's Third Reich, the emblem of the violently
racist (and now virtually defunct) Church of the Creator,
and some other flags appropriated by various racist groups
such as the flag of the Confederacy (Klu Klux Klan)
[sic] and the Celtic
cross (often worn by racist

At the rally, Fromm reminisced about the Latvian Hall
bringing back memories of the good old Edmund Burke
Society days. The hall, for a quarter of a century in
fact, has given meeting space to rabid racists. Even up to
late 1993 and 1994 the Latvian Hall was a preferred site of
groups like the Heritage Front amongst others. In
1992, it was a venue for a secretive Hitler birthday bash
attended by more than 100 racists.

Fromm's "Martyr's Day" speech provided some specifically
Canadian content. It paid tribute to the late John Ross
Taylor, whom Fromm praised for "60 years of dedication to
his beliefs" and described as a "Canadian hero".[17]
Taylor, whose Nazi career in Canada dates from the 1920's,
had been jailed twice for contempt of court for his refusal
to terminate racist telephone messages attacking minorities.
"We ate all on the same side"[18] Fromm told his
listeners adding:

"We are up against ....an army of occupation,
where we the majority have no rights and the only way
that we are going to regain our country is through unity,
unity, unity".[19]

Fromm of course was not speaking of Canadian unity, but
of unifying the radical racist right.

17: From unauthorized video of
Martyrs Day Rally, December 8, 1990

18: Ibid.

19: Ibid.

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Tellingly, Fromm continually disavowed any association
with the "Martyr's Day Rally". He outrightly denied giving
any speech at the rally until challenged by a Toronto
Sun reporter who confronted him with a copy of the video
showing Fromm addressing the rally.[20]

Although Fromm later claimed to have been disturbed by
what he saw at the Heritage Front's Martyr's Day
rally, his involvement was no aberration. Less than one year
later, on September 5th 1991 Fromm was the keynote speaker
at the Heritage Front's so-called "Open Forum on
Canada's Immigration Policy", its first "public"
meeting.

A television report of the meeting showed that among
those cheering him in the audience were a number of racist
skinheads. During the 80's Fromm appears to have attempted
to recruit young skinheads with a white supremacist bent,
with some newspapers reporting skinheads provided security
for speakers involved with Fromm in his speaking tours
across Ontario and the rest of Canada. And in March 1990,
Fromm spoke at a gathering in Guelph, Ontario, organized by
an upcoming young neo-Nazi skinhead star, George Burdi.
Under the false name George Norriss, Burdi was trying to
start up a Guelph University chapter of Fromm's C-FAR
and had rented a roam at the Albion Hotel for an
introductory speech by Fromm.

When Burdi's rally was publicly reported a series of
student protests were

organized. In fact, a students' group purchased almost
all the tickets and during Fromm's speech, turned their back
and spoke loudly to each other as a piece of "Street
Theatre" denouncing Fromm and Burdi. Later both Fromm and
Burdi required a police escort to leave the Hotel.

But of late Fromm's audiences seem to have shrunk to a
core of mainly older men and women.

As a result of his activities in the early 1990's,
complaints were made to the Peel Board of Education (his
employer) and to the Ontario Ministry of Education regarding
Mr. Fromm's suitability to be a public highschool teacher.
Following interventions by a range of groups including
Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region, the Native
Canadian Centre, the Canadian Council of Christians and
Jews, B'nai Brith Canada amongst others, the Ontario
Minister of Education called an inquiry appointing J.G.
Cowan, a lawyer with Weir and Folds to adjudicate. In a wide
ranging report Mr. Cowan noted of particular interest that
Mr. Fromm's publications from CAFE and another of his
organizations C-FAR.

"...pandered to those who view crime and social
problems as a consequence of admitting visible minority
persons as immigrants or refugees ... (the) Crime Watch
section has the potential to develop or reinforce racist
attitudes towards visible minorities."[21]

As a direct result of Mr. Cowan's report, Paul Fromm was
removed as a high school teacher and reassigned to teach
adult education.

Fromm continues, well into 1996, to make common cause
with - and give succor to - some of Canada's most notorious
racist extremists. In March 1996 he was to have appeared at
the Surry Inn, in British Columbia as a guest speaker for
the Second Canadian Free Speech Conference which was
being sponsored by one of Fromm's organizations,
CAFE. Amongst those who were scheduled to speak wcre
Holocaust deniers Ernst Zundel, Northshore News columnist
and Holocaust denier Doug Collins, as well as fellow
"teachers" and antisemites Malcolm Ross and James
Keegstra,

Also in March 1996 a planned speaking engagement by Paul
Fromm in Edmonton was thwarted as a result of demonstrations
held by anti-racist protesters in front of the hotel. Even
as late as September 1996, Paul Fromm was seen to be
supporting Ron Gostick of the Canadian League of
Rights who was seeking a hotel to hold what ostensibly
was to be a discussion on the pros and cons of Quebec
separation. Once again as a result of pressure brought to
bear by anti-racist groups in Edmonton, the hotel in
question canceled the group's contract Fromm came
immediately to the defense of his colleague in a letter he
wrote to the hotel, attempting to discredit Professor David
Lethbridge of the Salmon Arms Coalition Against Racism.

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In his letter, Fromm said:

"I am also sending you excerpts from our recent
Free Speech monitor (a series of pamphlets produced by
Paul Fromm supporting the rights of neo-Nazis to free
speech) on activities and statements by Lethbridge who
incidentally refuses to debate with such distinguished
supporters of freedom as British war hero Doug Collins of
the North Shore News in Vancouver."[22]

Collins is presently facing a human rights complaint in
British Columbia stemming from his outspoken support of
Holocaust denial and deniers.

Paul Fromm continues to run into trouble. On December 11,
1996 at a public forum to commemorate "International Human
Rights Day" B'nai Brith Canada's League of Human Rights,
accused Paul Fromm of:

''. . . continuing to associate with known white
supremacists, and to make speeches against Canada's
multicultural/multiracial society, in blatant violation
of a Peel Board (of Education) ruling that prohibits such
conduct."[23]

During the course of the forum, audience members were
shown excerpts from an appearance by Paul Fromm at the
"Revilo P. Oliver Memorial Symposium" in November 1994.

The symposium was organized by the National
Alliance, a large U.S. Nazi propaganda organization,
whose leader William L. Pearce was the author of the

22: From an unpublished letter
to the manager of the Coast Terrace Inn, Edmonton, AB.,
1996

23: B'nai Brith Canada, Press Release,
December 11, 1996

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infamous Turner Diaries, The novel about guerrilla
warfare waged against Blacks, Jews and and
[sic] the U.S.
government, is billed "a handbook for white victory".
Tragically it appears as though the bombing of the Oklahoma
City Alfred P. Murrah building in April 1995 mirrors a
fictional episode written about in the Turner Diaries, In
its book Extremism on the Right the
Anti-Defamation League describes the National
Alliance as a "neo Hitlerian, racist, and antisemitic
extremist group."[24]

Revilo P. Oliver was one of America's most notorious
fascists and, according to B'nai Brith Canada a "long time
proponent of antisemitism".[25]

An advertisement for the video appeared in National
Vanguard, house organ for Pearce's National
Alliance group. The ad had this to say of the
symposium's namesake:

Dr. Revilo P. Oliver was one of this centuries
greatest thinkers and writers . . . he was one of the
very few academicians to fully perceive the threats to
America and to western man. He was one of the founders of
the John Birch Society when he realized that conservatism
was a lost cause in America, he appealed to Americans to
make a final and uncompromising stand for survival of
America's founding race, a cause he championed until his
death ... These speakers are speaking from the heart and
speaking of the greatest issue -the survival of the
European race - of this or any other century.[26]

Fromm himself seemed well in tune with the symposium's
sentiments. Excerpts

24: Extremism on the
Right: a Handbook, Anti-Defamation League, New York,
N.Y.

from Fromm's speech were read aloud at the International
Human Rights Day forum:

"If we are going to be true to our Aryan spirit,
to the very best of our people, which is reason
[for] doing what Aryan man has always done...
facing reality [it was necessary] "to recapture
the greatness of our race's spirit and then we can retake
this continent."[27]

Amongst other honoured guests at its symposium were
former Ku Klux Klan leader and well known right-wing
extremist David Duke. The Revilo P. Oliver Memorial
Symposium concluded with the singing of "Deutschland Uber
Alles."

Karen Mock, B'nai Brith Director of the League of Human
Rights, reiterated the earlier call of the CJC and the
Native Canadian Center for the Peel Board of Education to
fire Paul Fromm as a teacher:

"If he must continue his racist 'free speech'
campaign, let him not do it as teacher."[28]

Both Fromm, the propagandist, and Droege, the movement
leader, are linked, not just through their attendance at
each other's meetings, but also through a mutual associate
and friend - Ernst Zundel.

(As this report was being printed, Ernst Zundel revealed
on his internet site that Fromm has been notified of the
termination of his employment with the Peel Board due to his
continued association with racists and antisemites Fromm has
indicated he will fight the dismissal.)